History & Culture : Aristotle

The Alexandrians estimated that Aristotle had written about 400 books. Diogenis the Laertian estimated his work in rhymes and found that came up to 44 myriads, that is 440.000. A big part of this work has been lost. It belonged to the category of public or "interior" courses and it was written in a dialectic form. From these, only "Athenians State" has been found, written in a papyrus in Egypt. All the work that has been found today correspond to Aristotle's tutoring of advanced students the so-called "hearings or interiors". Thus they are written as a speech and not as a dialog.
Aristotle never published any of his writings. The manuscripts remained at Theofrastos and since Syllas era moved from hand to hand. After the conquest of Athens (86 b.c.) Syllas transferred them in Rome. They were first published (60 b.c.) there by the peripatetic philosopher Andronikos the Rodian and by the philologist Ionas the Tyrannionas. Since then all his books have been submitted to editing and processions and generally their condition is not good. From Aristotle's total work only 47 books have be preserved and some extracts from the rest. However, not all of them are considered to be authentic.
The most common rank of them is the following one:

a) Logical or Organon, that is, useful thesis for knowledge. These are the following six: "About interpretation"", "Categories", "Analytical before", "Analytical after", " Local and Sophisticated controls". These thesis consist of the eternal glory of the philosopher, who first among others formulated the laws of human mind and the means of meditation.

b) Sciences. They include the following thesis: "Natural hearing" (books 8), "About sky", (books 4), "About birth and decline" (books 3), "Meteorological" (books 4), "About course animals" (1 book), "About the world" (pseudepigraph)

c) Biological "About history animals" (books 10), "About particle animals" (books 4), "About course animals " (one book), "About movement animals" (books 10), "About birth animals (book 5), "About plants" (pseudepigraph). With these work he became the creator of science, zoology, and comparative anatomy. With these thesis Aristotle turned the philosophical conversation in the fruitful ground of the tangible world.

d) Physiological: "about soul" (books 3), "About senses and sensates", "About memory and reminiscence", "About sleep and alertness", "About dreams", "About prophecy at sleep", "About long life and short life", "About life and death", "About breathing", "About spirit" (pseudepigraph). Except from the first one, the rest are known as "Small physics".

e) Metaphysical or first philosophy as Aristotle used to call them

f) Moral: "Moral Evdimia" (books 8), "Moral big" (books 2), "Moral Nikomahia" (books 10). Those were particularly honored by theologies

g) Politics: "Politics: (books 8), "Athenians State", "Economics" (books 2). Today the represent even the base for those who are interested n political sciences

h) Technical: "rhetorical" (books 3), "Poetical" (only a part of it was found)

i) Problems: Contain problems from various knowledge fields

In the total of the Aristotle's work they have included the following pieces, which are not considered as genuine: Physiognomically, About splendid hearings, About colors, About peoples' lines, Mechanical, rhetoric to Alexander and About auditors.